rattled - Story 109909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was driving when he got the text: "College closing. Check email." He pulled over to the side of the road, heart pounding. He felt a wave of nausea, like he was going to throw up.

He didn't want to look, but he had to. He unlocked his phone and saw the subject line. He read the words, and a coldness spread through his veins.

He sat there for a long time, the engine idling, the air conditioning blowing cold air onto his face, doing nothing.

Emotion: rattled

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.29 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.42

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion rattled. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 rattled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the rattled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the rattled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.264
`😣`	0.261
`worse`	0.256
`😞`	0.248
`😖`	0.247

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.571
`la`	-0.414
`a`	-0.377
`happy`	-0.259
`enthusi`	-0.234